Balancing Water after Liner Replacement

[dmpoole]

I am having my vinyl pool liner replaced this week, the old one was 12 years old. I have a SWG and cartridge filter. My contractor wants $800 to balance the pool after the liner is installed . Does this make sense, or should I just do it myself.

I have tested my fill water:

Chlorine - 0
PH - 7.6
Total Alkalinity - 180
CYA - 0
Salt - I do not have the chemicals to test this

 

[Mdragger88]

whoa! Thats alot of dough$$
What test kit do u have ?
You can order a salt test on tftestkits & it would probably come in a few days
(which is pretty necessary to maintain a salt pool)

K-1766 Taylor Salt Test

tftestkits.net

You will need to dose w/ liquid chlorine daily until your salt is dissolved & swg is up & running.
Recommended Levels
&
PoolMath should be able to tell u what u need to add but your fill ph & alk look fine.
Chlorine is paramount

 

[Mdragger88]

$75 stabilizer (20lb) total -add it in stages like 75% then test
$180 salt (1100 lb) total - add it in stages like 75% then test
$20 10% bleach (5 gal)total- add daily according to FC/CYA Levels
$35 salt kit w/shipping
$13 muriatic acid (2gal) which u may or may not need right now but will probably last u at least a season.
So about $323 worth of stuff give or take.
& almost $500 for him to dump it in & walk off.

 

[dmpoole]

I have now tested my salt level and it is at 700 ppm.

 

[mknauss]

How did you test that salinity? Seems high for domestic water in your area of Texas. You can use that for your starting point and once you get to ~3000 ppm (what SWCG do you have?) then just make the SWCG happy so it operates.

 

[dmpoole]

I have a Pentair IC40